[MUD-Dev] Semi Graphical Muds

[Dave Rickey]

-----Original Message-----
From: Hulbert, Leland <LHulbert at czn.com>
To: 'mud-dev at kanga.nu' <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Semi Graphical Muds

> A community is a group of people sharing common interests or
> experiences.  As such, communities differ as widely as the experience
> or interest is defined.  No communication is truly necessary for a
> community to exist.  There is a community that consists of all
> survivors of train wrecks.  They may not know each other, but they
> share a similar experience.  The essence of 'community' is having
> something 'in-common' and the size of a community is directly related
> to the frequency of the experience associated with it.


Well, community also requires communication links.  For small
communities the grapvine is adequate, but larger/wider spread
communities need other means.  Online, sub-communities are more often
defined *by* those links, IMHO.  The over-arcing EQ community is
composed of subcommunities mostly centering on message boards, for
example (that includes most guilds).

--Dave Rickey

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